Page 77 - Gorbachev News Today

Ekaterina, the news director and anchor at tv rain. and one of russias last independent news networks. the staff all walked off. and before going off air, the broadcast cut to swan lake, the performance, that was a message of protest to the russian people as that is what state tv showed when a coup unfolded against then leader gorbachev. i really appreciate having you back with me. lets start with that actress. we saw today this actress, very famous actress leave russia in protest over what she ...

Now compared to brezhnev or gorbachev or any of the former soviet leaders, none of them, i suspect, were willing to press the button. i think there is a belief that putin might be one of those guys. there is part here because putin is not a leader who was born during the war. he is of that generation who dont remember that, as most of our leaders dont now, and certainly in some sense leaders tended to be older, almost universally, but mostly in that is a significant change, someone who does not ...

Russia. the tragedy is that putin himself has no politics surrounding him that we yet can discern. that emphasis on what we can discern, theres so few people around him that give him contrary opinion, who put political pressure on him, and he is acting in a solitary way. you saw that in his meeting with the security council when the head of foreign intelligence got up and tried to disagree just a little bit, he was humiliated. >> right. >> we have to hope that the people around him start doing -...

To the application of nicholas the second. ultimately, the bolsheviks revolution. lets not forget also that the ouster of khrushchev occurred two years after he retreated from cuba, after he remove the missiles from cuba. then, of course, the quagmire of afghanistan lead makeup gorbachev led to gorbachevs reforms that ultimately destroyed the soviet union. putin knows this is straight. thats another reason why i and a lot of others, and by the, way lots of ukraine, its almost all of, them includ...

In the days after stalin, under brezhnev and gosrbachev and all the rest, there was some collective leadershipship. it wasnt just one persons word. so there was pressure on the dictator. gorbachev was overthrown for at least a few days. there was a certain amount of that. that doesnt exist in todays russia. it is all on system built around one man and that includes his guards, who are enriched enormously to stay loyal. so we talk about oligarchs and taking their yachts and all this kind of thing...

To give him a peerage. second, the lebedevs, and particularly evgeny, were very proud of the work they raised, the money they raised for the raisa gorbachev cancer foundation. they had gorbachev in the evening standard newsroom. putin despises gorbachev. he sees gorbachev as the man who helped collapse the soviet union, ending russia as a great power. so, i mean, its a strange thing to have that kind of closer relationship with gorbachev. now, third, i would draw a distinction between the father...

>> i think when you ask the question, as many as of have been, why is putin acting a little differently or strangely? theres the pressures of war and internal politics inside russia. with these withering sanctions that the west is imposing upon him, i do think this group of the military elite. not the oligarchs. not the man on the street. but people with intelligence and military training who know how to run secret operations and keep things quiet, this is why were not seeing any signs of that. ...

The into the russian leaders and the elite hands where they might not survive if putin stays at the top. so it becomes very serious for them if they want to keep their status, they might start looking around for someone else to to be the leader in just the 30 seconds weve got here. quick answer. what will be the first telltale signs that something like a rebellion will be brewing? i would say that it probably has to do well. its going to be very quick to beat it to begin with . the russians when...

So, in russia, alexander bought a large chunk of novaya gazeta with gorbachev, and he also bought a smaller tabloid. there is some irony in that — that tabloid, in 2008, reported allegations that putin was having an affair with a young gymnast, and within a few days, the tabloid was shutdown, and it was, really, within a couple of weeks of that that alexander and evgeny started the process to buy the evening standard. so when we reported on that deal, for us, it was also about the openness of ...

It something like 23% in terms of the way they are handling the u.s. southern border, which is essentially open right now. i have a quote in my little home basement studio here and i think it really sums up kamala harris obsession of talking about time. its time to do what we had been doing, and that time is every day. its right next to "mr. gorbachev, tear down that wall." >> carley: naturally. >> when she goes off prompter, its like her boss. it never ends well and i think thats why so many se...